"When I was your age, I was an adult."
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parents, parent, parenting, kids, children, child, adult, adults, childhood, adulthood, growing up, growing pains, grown up, grown ups, hypocrisy, hypocritical, hypocrite, critic, critical, adult behaviour, adult behavior, age, aging, parental advice, slacker, slackers, son, father, sons, fathers, loafer, loafers, layabout, skiver, matured, maturity, adult child, millennial, millennials, independent, independents, independence, mooch, mooches, mooching, moocher, moochers, financial independence, generation gap, generation gaps"How's your spring break going, Jerry?"
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drink, drinking, drinker, drinkers, spring break, break, spring-break, alcohol, alcoholism, alcoholic, alcoholics, student, students, 90s, underage drinking, teen, teens, teenager, vacation, vacations, holiday, holidays, growing up, age, ageing, matured, maturity, immature, word play, play on words, word-play, vice, vices, dweeb, dweebs, nerd, nerds, geek, geeks, dork, dorky, dorks, shut in, hermit, hermits"I went on spring break a boy and came back an alcoholic."
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drink, drinking, drinker, drinkers, spring break, break, spring-break, alcohol, alcoholism, alcoholic, alcoholics, student, students, 90s, underage drinking, teen, teens, teenager, vacation, vacations, holiday, holidays, growing up, age, ageing, matured, maturity, immature, word play, play on words, word-play, vice, vices"My problem is I grew up too fast."
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child, children, kid, kids, problem, problems, issue, issues, trouble, troubles, childhood, lost childhoods, childhoods, lost childhood, grew up too fast, grow up too fast, grows up too fast, grown up too fast, grown up, grow up, grows up, growing up, matured, maturing, matures, maturing too fast, matured too fast, matures too fast, mature too fast, difficult childhood, difficult childhoods"I'm sorry I'm late, Mrs. Mead. We're going through another divorce."
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child, children, trauma, traumatic experience, traumas, traumatic experiences, divorce, divorces, childhood trauma, childhood traumas, indifferent, household troubles, home troubles, domestic trouble, domestic troubles, teacher, teachers, childhood, casual, casual behaviour, casual behavior, neutral behaviour, indifference, parent, parents, taking it well, took it well, matured, growing up too fast, counsellor, counsellors, counselor, counselors, therapist, therapists, mental health, emotional wellbeing, emotional health, mental health issues, emotional stress"Do you have a minute to talk about your retirement years?"
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child, children, kid, kids, old at heart, retirement plan, retirement plans, retire, retires, retired, retiring, retirement years, plan, planning, planned, plans, matured, maturing, matured, matured too fast, matures too fast, maturing too fast, mature too fast, grow up too fast, grows up too fast, grew up too fast, growing up too fast, job, jobs"Don't you just love them when they're that age?"
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child, children, kid, kids, dating, dates, dates, dated, couple, couples, mature for one's age, matured, matures, maturing, new adult, new adults, adults, love, age, ages, age group, age groups, particular age, particular ages, certain age, certain ages, single people, single life"I loved your E-mail, but I thought you'd be older."
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online dating, online dating websites, online dating website, blind date, blind dates, blind dating, child, children, date, dating, mature for one's age, growing up too fast, maturing, matured, older, too young, age gap, age differences, dating website, dating websites, catfish, catfishing, catfished, surprise, surprised, surprises, surprising, unexpected"Dad, I've been thinking it might make things better between us if I just called you Ed."
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parents, parent, parenting, child, children, father, fathers, son, sons, dad, dads, respect, respecting, respected, respects, respectful, mutual respect, mutually respected, growing up, grow up, grew up, grows up too fast, grew up too fast, maturing, matured, matures, maturing too fast, first world problems, modern era, modern times, modern age"Naughty? Nice? It's a bit more nuanced than that..."
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santa claus, xmas, xmas holidays, christmas, christmas holidays, christmas holiday, christmas vacation, christmas vacations, vacation, vacations, xmas vacation, seasonal holidays, seasonal, nice, nice list, nice lists, naughty list, naughty lists, nuanced, nuance, subtle, complicated, refinement, refinements, refined, refines, refining, refined, child, children, growing up too fast, complicated issue, complicated issues, matured, maturing, present, presents, gifts, gift, present, black and white"Norman won't collaborate."
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child, children, parent, parents, care taker, care takers, parenting, mature for one's age, growing up too fast, hog, hogs, hogging, hogged, not sharing, share, sharing, shared, shares, sharing is caring, age, ageing, maturing, matured, build, building blocks, building block, toy, toys, mean, greedy, tattle tale, telling on, tell onChild stares at older self in puddle.
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child, children, puddle, puddles, rain, rains, raining, rained, splash, splashed, splashing, splashes, fun, having fun, joy, joyful, enjoy, enjoying, enjoyed, premature aging, premature ageing, premature, growing up too fast, matured, old soul, old souls, old at heart, sullen, sad, future self, reflection, reflections, reflecting